Armchair Dragoons Forums
Wargaming => Sci-fi & Fantasy Warfare => Topic started by: bob48 on April 14, 2020, 02:45:24 PM
-
After the C-64, we graduated to an Amiga 500, and eventually to an Amiga 600HD.
Lots of good games for these machines, so lets have yer thoughts. I would expect the Bitmap Brothers to feature here. Chaos Engine was a good 'un.
I still have the scars from endless hours playing Speedball 2.
-
* Amiga ;)
(unless that's a British speulling :hehe: )
-
Or if he shops at the same store Homer Simpson does. :hehe:
-
* Amiga ;)
(unless that's a British speulling :hehe: )
oops
-
Incubation was another great game.
-
The first game I ever saw on an Amiga was Rocket Ranger. A friend of mine that I worked with at Babbage's at the time had me over and I checked out his setup. I was incredibly jealous because these graphics were amazing back then.
-
I’m out - post c64 I went sideways to the mega drive
-
We'll let you off then, 'geek.
-
Yep we graduated to Amiga too. Here's a classic straight from ye olde memory vault: Starglider 2!
-
I’m out - post c64 I went sideways to the mega drive
Me too. I went from C64 to 8086 PC.
-
Me three. C64 to 8088.
-
My favorite Amiga game: Their Finest Hour, Lucasarts' Battle of Britain game. Obviously dated today but a real looker back then.
Complete with authentic Amiga disk drive sounds:
Cannon Fodder, F-29 Retaliator, Falcon AT, Beneath a Steel Sky, and Shadow of the Beast (or was it SotB2?) were some others I enjoyed.
I know there were a few more but I got my Amiga used around '93. When Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe came out on DOS only I switch to a barebones 486 and added sound/joystick ports, better graphics, and also a math co-processor. Then came Falcon 3 and the poor Miggie got shelved. :-[
-
Their Finest Hour had the most glorious manual!
-
Yes, and I have two copies!
-
F-16 Combat Pilot, and European Air War.
-
Me three. C64 to 8088.
I should note that while I did leave the C64 behind, I stayed in the Commodore family. Behold, the Commodore PC10:
(https://www.old-computers.com/museum/logos/commodore_logo.gif)
(https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Commodore_PCcomp_PC10_1.jpg)
| CPU | 8088 |
| SPEED | 4.77 to 9.54MHz |
| RAM | 640KB |
| GRAPHICS | GCA (640 x 200) |
| COLORS | 16 |
| SOUND | Tone Generator |
| MEDIA | 360KB Floppy Drives |
-
^Nice!
-
I could swear my Commodore PC was a PC-10, but apparently it was a PC-40. I just found a picture of it and can swear that indeed that was the one. I can't find a picture of it with a VGA monochrome monitor (pretty sure 256 shades of gray was not in high demand so I'm surprised my grandfather bothered with it in the first place when he got the system for me back in the day).
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/384ae59a0775c824ba877fcec98df002/tumblr_ou5cyl6CZN1tvlwxio6_1280.jpg)
Released: 1989
OS: Commodore MS-DOS
CPU: 80286 @ 12 MHz
Memory: 1 MB RAM (640 KB + 384 KB)
Video: VGA (256 KB RAM)
Graphics: VGA 320×200 (256 colors) to 640×480 (16 colors)
Audio: PC speaker (1 bit)
Internal storage: 40 MB 3.5″ PATA/IDE hard drive
Removable storage: 5.25″ (1.2 MB) or 3.5″ (1.44 MB) floppy drive
FPU: Optional 80287
Expansion slots: 3 x ISA-16, 1 x ISA-8
-
I LOVED the Amiga. Some A-10 game I played and one of the, 'Silent Service' games. :dreamer: The whole, 'Press Any Key To Continue' thing threw me at first. I tried my house key, my car keys, work keys, roller skate keys..... Nothing Worked! :go-on:
-
I could swear my Commodore PC was a PC-10, but apparently it was a PC-40. I just found a picture of it and can swear that indeed that was the one. I can't find a picture of it with a VGA monochrome monitor (pretty sure 256 shades of gray was not in high demand so I'm surprised my grandfather bothered with it in the first place when he got the system for me back in the day).
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/384ae59a0775c824ba877fcec98df002/tumblr_ou5cyl6CZN1tvlwxio6_1280.jpg)
Released: 1989
OS: Commodore MS-DOS
CPU: 80286 @ 12 MHz
Memory: 1 MB RAM (640 KB + 384 KB)
Video: VGA (256 KB RAM)
Graphics: VGA 320×200 (256 colors) to 640×480 (16 colors)
Audio: PC speaker (1 bit)
Internal storage: 40 MB 3.5″ PATA/IDE hard drive
Removable storage: 5.25″ (1.2 MB) or 3.5″ (1.44 MB) floppy drive
FPU: Optional 80287
Expansion slots: 3 x ISA-16, 1 x ISA-8
Oooh, look at that fancy 3.5" drive. 8)
-
And that 40MB hard drive...it was quite roomy at the time for what I played on it. Nowadays yer lucky to find a PHONE app that's under 40MB. ;D
-
Oooh, look at that fancy 3.5" drive. 8)
And a fancy processor as well! 286 = luxury!!!
-
AND a 40MB hard drive? BC must have been rich!
-
HA! Nah, just lucky. My grandfather bought it for me for my 20th B-day, I believe it was.
-
Awesome grandfather. :bigthumb:
-
I don't think I've ever seen a computer with both a 3.5" drive AND a 5.25" drive! :o
-
I don't think I've ever seen a computer with both a 3.5" drive AND a 5.25" drive! :o
Believe it or not, I have four of them right now- all around 30 years old: two Leading Edge 486s, a Tandy 1000SX (or TX, I forget) , and some mystery 386 box that was probably a bespoke unit. All are on the shelf awaiting a future refurb. ::)
-
I still have a Zip drive around here somewhere. Now that was some storage space! :hehe:
(https://www.silicon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/iomega-Zip-Drive-1-684x513.jpg)
-
I remember seeing those at CompUSA. What was their advantage over using a hard drive? Was it common in business/academic machines for exchanging large files?
BTW, one of my A2000s came with some kind of enclosed-disk-storage device similar to the Zip. The rig started life as a Video Toaster but by the time I bought it all those bits had been removed, presumably to be sold separately. The drive is labeled 'Sysquest' and the one disk I got with it claims to be 88MB.
-
Since my first experience with Amigas was Cinemaware games, thought I'd mention that Steam has a deal on 13 Cinemaware tiles for $9.99.
-
Since my first experience with Amigas was Cinemaware games, thought I'd mention that Steam has a deal on 13 Cinemaware tiles for $9.99.
:o Want!
-
Oh blimey!
-
Almost worth getting just for 'Wings' and 'Defender of the Crown'.
-
I've got Wings already, which is not bad. I never played it back in the day and today it holds up decently.
-
I used to enjoy the bombing missions.
-
I used to enjoy the bombing missions.
That was fun, I agree. So much so I went in for the kickstarter when someone redid it with more modern graphics. I've somehow lost my copy of the installer file and now the old email link goes to some chinese cybersquatter soft-porn-looking site. The kickstarter team must not have paid to keep the domain for more than a couple of years. :(
-
The "Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991" includes the following titles:
Defender of the Crown
SDI
The King of Chicago
Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon
Lords of the Rising Sun
Rocket Ranger*
It Came From the Desert
It Came From the Desert II: Antheads
Wings!
TV Sports: Football
TV Sports: Basketball
TV Sports: Baseball
TV Sports: Boxing
The asterisk on Rocket Ranger means those in Germany get a different version. I don't think there are any swastikas in the game but I could be wrong; that might be why.
-
I don't think there are any swastikas in the game but I could be wrong; that might be why.
Yeah there definitely are. They're on the blimps that you have to shoot down, I remember that much. Probably elsewhere too.
-
Oh crap, that's right. When you're in the stage shooting down the missiles the blimp is firing at you...swastikas all over that bad boy.
-
I remember seeing those at CompUSA. What was their advantage over using a hard drive? Was it common in business/academic machines for exchanging large files?
It was a portable hard drive where the media could be swapped out instantly (and so was also super-portable) just like a normal disk drive.
We used a set at the factory back in the day, practically up to the point where data sticks were invented. I still think some of our years are backed up on those discs in the safe! -- but we have no way to access them anymore, since the drives themselves are long gone.
-
FYI, the Cinemaware Anthology on Steam is now only $1.99, instead of $9.99.
-
Oh well, I probably would have wasted the extra eight bucks on gas or food anyway.
-
...sounds like another good sig line to me..............